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| author | Pieter Praet <pieter@praet.org> | 2012-01-14 04:47:52 +0100 |
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| committer | Pieter Praet <pieter@praet.org> | 2012-01-14 05:31:28 +0100 |
| commit | 8d3942dde2b3f4b84c27c36e6357e86b3f117c49 (patch) | |
| tree | 0d812d9c9c8d787f7438fd291043a39ee7fc4533 /patchformatting.mdwn | |
| parent | d7c70a64d61ced5fca65ebf0cc998625994da538 (diff) | |
patchformatting.mdwn: added cworth's statement re commit msg body
I'd love to have used ikiwiki's shortcut directive [1] 'gmanemsg'
(which is enabled @ notmuchmail.org [2])
eg. [[has stated|!gmanemsg 87ocmwok2w.fsf@yoom.home.cworth.org]]
but this isn't possible yet [3], so I had to insert the actual link...
[1] http://notmuchmail.org/shortcuts/
[1] http://ikiwiki.info/shortcuts/
[2] http://ikiwiki.info/todo/shortcut_with_different_link_text/
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diff --git a/patchformatting.mdwn b/patchformatting.mdwn index 3a122fc..8f32031 100644 --- a/patchformatting.mdwn +++ b/patchformatting.mdwn @@ -33,6 +33,11 @@ Enter your commit message in following format: The 65-character (limit) seems to be common among many projects so that is good guideline to follow here too. +Regarding the commit message body contents, Carl [has stated](http://article.gmane.org/gmane.mail.notmuch.general/504): + +> The single line summary is good about saying *what* the commit does, +> but I always want to see at least one sentence about the *why* as well. + ### Activating default pre-commit hook Git provides a default pre-commit hook which, when activated, checks |